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Required reading?
Has anyone heard whether the actors this endeavor have actually read the LOTR? That might prove to be an interesting survey. Which have and which haven't. And if an actor/actress had not read LOTR prior to beginning filming, should PJ have insisted that they DO read it?
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Re: Required reading?
I'm sure many of them have, and a lot probably hadn't, at least at the time of their casting. I have no idea who has read and who hasn't, but I think I read somewhere that Elijah Wood had only read "The Hobbit." Not sure about that though.
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Re: Required reading?
Oh? I thought that Elijah had read LOTR....for some reason I thought he was quite familar with it.
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Re: Required reading?
That's entirely possible. Like I said, I'm not sure about it
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Re: Required reading?
I remember hearing that Elijah Wood had not read LOTR. I think it was early last winter. It was in some article on the web. Anyway, I would think any actor in this film, who had not already read LOTR, would take it upon himself (or herself) to read it in preparation for his role. At least this seems to be the professional thing to do.
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Re: Required reading?
My impression from the start - don't remember my source - was that Elijah absolutely loved LOTR and had read it several times... guess we have different sources. Or I have a bad memory.
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Re: Required reading?
I had heard the same thing IP....something like he had heard that PJ was going to do The Movie and was so excited that he just had to be a part of it....even an orc...he didn't care. Maybe Michael Martinez can shed some light on this......Oh Miiiiichaeeeeellll?
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Re: Required reading?
It's entirely possible that MY memory is failing me... It happens when you reach my age.
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Re: Required reading?
Hmm....two of us have heard one thing, and two of us something else....so it could be either way.
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Re: Required reading?
Well, it was Samuel L. Jackson who went on a talk show and expressed his desire to be in Star Wars Episode I even if he had to have a minor part (I think he mentioned a stormtrooper or something
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Re: Required reading?
True....but either way, I still feel that Wood has read LOTR.
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I don´t know if this belongs here...
From an interview with Dominic Monaghan (Merry)
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I don´t think he has read the books. ![]() And begining to think nor PJ has ![]() ----EDIT NOTE---- C o o c k i e s t, i said!! |
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Re: I don´t know if this belongs here...
Lee and Mckellen have both read the books, and from the preview I got the diea that Wood had too. PJ is a different story
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Re: I don´t know if this belongs here...
back to the top to post this from the recent interview to Brad Douriff:
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Re: I don´t know if this belongs here...
The latest E! Online story has a rundown of who's read the books... hold on while I grab that information (unless someone else does it for me first...)
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Cool!
LOL, I totally forgot that I had submitted that question to E! Online!!! Now I only wish that I had listed my address as Entmoot.
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Re: Cool!
Anduin, I thought it was you!!!
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Re: Cool!
I think PJ has read the LotR. He's very familiar with fantasy (Heavenly Creatures) and... stuff, so I think he's read it.
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I read somewhere that one of his school friends was a LotR enthusiast and he introduced PJ to the trilogy. So I guess that means he read it. (LOL, I can just picture Greg being a movie director, directing another version of LotR because I told him about it
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